What Kind of Climate Change Piggy Are You?

Oil DropLet’s say that by some miracle the pause button has been hit on global warming and we now have a short window to save the planet. Under such a scenario, what kind of climate piggy will you be?

Science is clearly telling us that humans are warming  the planet to a dangerous degree. Should we keep burning fossil fuels with abandon we well see more extreme changes in our in our climate. Some believe we already doomed.  Continue reading

3.2 Ways to Go Abroad and Stay Wired

I stole this iPad image from an Apple Web site. Shh.

I stole this iPad image from an Apple Web site. Shh.

(Editor’s Note: What follows is a rather technical discussion on how to go abroad with a lot of new techno crap. Should you decide to embark on such an adventure, make sure you consult with someone who actually knows what he or she is talking about.)

Before heading out on a long trip to Asia, I realized I was facing a stark technology deficit. I had recently left my old company that consistently kitted me out with the most curmudgeonly equipment  available. But now I was digitally adrift. Continue reading

Canada’s Oil Minister Talks Trash, Exposes Ottawa’s Mindset

keystone pipeline protestorsSo Joe Oliver, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister, marched down to Washington  and gave the proverbial finger to one of America’s most renowned scientists.

Jim Hansen, the esteemed scientist formerly of NASA, is spewing “nonsense” when he is talking about global warming and Canada’s Keystone pipeline, according to Oliver, a former investment banker turned heavy oil mouthpiece. Continue reading

Will Obama Swing for the Climate Change Fences?

Will Obama Tackle Global Warming?

Will Obama Tackle Global Warming?

Rahm Emanuel, the former top aide in the White House, once advised a world struggling with a financial meltdown that it was not good to let a serious crisis go to waste.

But this year, despite electoral momentum and tragedies by the handful, serious crises could go very much to waste for President Barack Obama. Could this mean the world will have to wait yet again for serious action to fight global warming? It depends. Continue reading

Keystone Pipeline: Pointless and Harmful

For American consumers, the Keystone Pipeline project will prove pointless. For the environment, it’s another blow. Expect President Barack Obama to approve it later this year.

The Keystone XL pipeline aims to substantially ramp shipment of Canadian oil sands crude to hungry U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Big Oil is lined up against an impressively organized green movement but expect oil companies to prevail as it is difficult to see how the White House will resist the oil lobby, especially after the latest State Department report, which gives the administration the cover it needs to approve. Continue reading